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dizzydizzydizzydizzydizzydizzy's avatar

This one hit hard, you remain a master of saying difficult shit when it counts

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A. A. Kostas's avatar

even leaving politics aside, most literary critics are fundamentally dishonest. we have gut-level moral and aesthetic reactions to art and literature, and the critic then works backward to apply whatever academic lense is in vogue (at least within their circles) to dress up their subjectivity in purported objectivity.

I learned this the hard way as a litigator, judges do the same, but it's not even due to corruption or policies proper, it's just the nature of how humans make judgements. we just pretend it's quantities vs qualitative because that makes us feel better post-Enlightenment.

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Contarini's avatar

Anent fn.6 and related text in the main body, having children has this weird superpower of dissolving all preexisting theoretical concerns and making a future with them in it seem not only possible, not only good, but the best thing there is, your purpose and focus. And you are happy with that. It's weird. It's not what you expect. Imagine my surprise! People who have not had sex don't know what it is actually about. Not having children is a similarly virginal state. So I learned.

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Autumn Widdoes's avatar

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”

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iaseufuiasd's avatar

Only coherent point was articulating your (and your generation's) reflection in the infantilized, dignity-cucked postwar mongrels. You're all bad, schizo actors - WE see it. Art mining and exposure compartmentalization is not a solution. Being a looser is your choice. You have enough money and time to be a real person

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Matthew Gasda's avatar

no idea what youre talking about

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iaseufuiasd's avatar

Only coherent point was articulating your (and your generation's) reflection in the infantilized, dignity-cucked postwar mongrels. You're all bad, schizo actors - WE see it. Art mining and exposure compartmentalization is not a solution. Being a looser is your choice. You have enough money and time to be a real person

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Alex-GPT's avatar

*loser

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iaseufuiasd's avatar

o

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Robbie Herbst's avatar

an incredibly nihilistic view of politics

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Matthew Gasda's avatar

So

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Robbie Herbst's avatar

It just seems really lonely to see other peoples’ politics as disingenuous social signaling. Bummer if true

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